Olivia Rodrigo put her album promotional run back in punk rock mode Tuesday, wearing crinkled black knee-highs with a vintage pink Sex Pistols T-shirt while promoting her forthcoming album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” in London.
The”Drop Dead” singer’s boots featured a tall, slightly loose shaft, a rounded-square toe and a low block heel, with black leather that creased heavily through the ankle and calf. A narrow zipper traced the inner side of the shaft, while the slim sole kept the silhouette closer to a worn-in vintage boot than a newer silhouette.
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The pair appears to match Dolce & Gabbana’s eel-skin knee-high boots, a vintage style currently circulating through Taste Studio and identified by Rodrigo style-tracking accounts on social media.
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She wore the boots with a black leather miniskirt and a pink vintage Sex Pistols T-shirt printed with “Anarchy in the U.K.” text, rolling the sleeves high on her arms. Black sunglasses and Paloma Wool’s Cayetano Shiny Leather Shoulder Bag in black embossed leather kept the outfit tight and glossy but still in the pop-punk aesthetic for which Rodrigo is known.
The London look landed on the darker side of the shoe story Rodrigo has been telling around this album cycle. On “Saturday Night Live” at the beginning of May, she split the night between Aquazzura’s crystal-trimmed pink satin Tell Me sandals and Miu Miu’s orchid-pink satin ballet flats, using both pairs to push the softer, romantic world around “Drop Dead.”
Her boots have been handling the other half of that equation. While filming a new music video in New York last week, Rodrigo wore heavy knee-high black boots with tall leg warmers and a stack of seven side buckles as ballerinas in pale pink tutus moved around her. At the Disney Upfront earlier in May, she performed in what appeared to be the same crinkled black boot style now seen in London, paired then with a pale pink Courrèges cardigan and Sandy Liang skort.
Rodrigo has long used boots as the harder punctuation in her wardrobe, from Dr. Martens’ Audrick 20-Eye knee-high platforms onstage to Frye and Dolce & Gabbana-style silhouettes offstage. In London, she kept the formula lean: black leather at the knee, a block heel on the pavement, a Sex Pistols graphic above it and just enough pink to stay sweet.